QuÃ´c Peyrot wrote:
> I don't understand that part. Each time you add a node, log2(n) node
> needs to be re-allocated. Hence the total number of reallocations is:
> Sum(ceil(log2(i)), i = 1..N) with N = 1000000, which is significant.
So you are saying that inserting N elements into a tree takes O(n*log2(n)).
> Where is my mistake in these maths?
No mistake. After all, after insertion you essentially have a sorted
tree, since iterating the tree takes O(n). Sorting take O(n*log n)...
Thanks,
PKE.
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